[Lazarus] Lazarus Examples

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Brian Prentice schrieb:
> Thank you for your replies on this matter.   No one addressed the 
> underlying problem here.  I believe that all the examples should be run 
> prior to a major release and those that do not run should be removed. 
>  This should be a significant part of regression testing.  This was 
> clearly not done on the Intel Mac version and from your replies has 
> never been done for this version.

The problem is: who should run the tests? Not every developer of an 
example can test his code on all target platforms. Removing examples, 
that do not run on a specific platform, IMO is no reasonable decision. 
Instead a general README file could list the platforms, on which every 
sample application has been tested, with what result.


> My original request repeated below remains unanswered.
> 
> I have recently installed fpc 2.2.4 and lazarus 0.9.28.2 on my intel mac 
> which is running OS X 10.5.8 from here:

Since such hardware and OS is not available to most example developers, 
you could test all sample applications and report. I'm willing to update 
the README files accordingly.

DoDi